期刊名称：JOM
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
![September 2010 Cover: This issue of JOM shines a white hot light on the Earth’s energy needs and materials solutions, so what better cover image than the ultimate energy source: the sun. Shown is a full-disk multiwavelength extreme ultraviolet image of the sun, courtesy of NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The SDO was launched in February 2010 to study the sun. The SDO’s extreme ultraviolet variability experiment studies fl uctuations in the sun’s radiant emissions. In this image, reds are relatively cool (about 60,000 K) and blues and greens are hotter (greater than 1 million K). Photo courtesy of NASA/Goddard/SDO AIA Team. [Click to enlarge]](http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/1009/cover-1009.gif)
Published monthly by The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), JOM is a professional forum for technology exchange among dedicated materials scientists and engineers practicing in a wide spectrum of disciplinary specialties. These technical interest areas can be broadly defined as extraction and processing; light metals; materials processing and manufacturing; structural materials; and electronic, magnetic, and photonic materials. Through the contributions of its authors, the journal provides expert technical discussion to a discerning international readership. By using such guiding tools as the Technical Emphasis Calendar and the JOM Advisory Committee, the journal's editorial team endeavors to foster professional affiliation and broad-based technical awareness among a variety of specialized practitioners who share a common educational background.
JOM is neither an archival research publication nor a commercial trade magazine, although it possesses characteristics of both. Rather, the journal acts as a literature resource reporting on scholarly work that elucidates state-of-the-art processing, fabrication, and design from a materials perspective. Written at a B.Sc. level, the journal is designed to appeal to an international academic, industrial, and governmental audience. Therefore, an emphasis is placed on general review articles.
Instructions to Authors
Approximately 11,000 copies of JOM are delivered each month. The majority of these issues go to members of TMS, who automatically receive the journal as a benefit of membership. There are also several thousand nonmember subscribers, mostly libraries. Roughly a quarter of the readership works outside the United States. About a third of the readers are students working toward a degree in a discipline of materials science and engineering, while most of the remaining readers are degreed professionals working in industry, academia, or government. The scope of coverage ranges from the extraction and processing of minerals and the fabrication and application of structural materials to the development of advanced electronic materials. The best way to understand the audience is to study several consecutive issues of the journal and to review the calendar of upcoming editorial topics.
The journal also reaches a varied and large audience through the Internet, specifically, the World Wide Web. At its web site (available through TMS OnLine), JOM presents tables of contents for current and past issues; subject indexes; classified advertising (positions available); and full-length, hypertext-enhanced technical articles, among other things. This site also features JOM-e, which is a web-only (no print version) supplement to the journal comprising multimedia articles prepared expressly for Internet presentation. JOM-e is published a minimum of four times per year. It is also possible to subscribe electronically to the journal through the TMS Document Center. Here, all editorial content from recent issues of the journal is available in portable document format (PDF).
JOM schedules articles according to the Technical Emphasis Calendar, which is established by the the JOM Advisory Committee. The committee consists of one representative from each TMS technical committee. Depending on the editorial emphasis topic, the appropriate editorial advisors assist the editor in selecting papers and/or arranging for qualified review of the manuscript. As papers are scheduled according to the Technical Emphasis Calendar, the length of the review process will vary depending on the timing of the submission and the publication month of the most-relevant topic.
Authors should formally notify the editor of their publishing intent by submitting a 300-word abstract, a probable title, and brief biographical sketch (a form can be completed and submitted electronically by visiting abstract-author). Usually, acceptance or rejection of the abstract will be determined in one month. If the abstract is accepted, the author will be asked to produce the manuscript no later than three months in advance of the planned month of publication (e.g., the first week of January for the April issue). This deadline reflects the time necessary to select, review, edit, proof, design, lay out, and print the manuscript. These deadlines are crucial. If the prospective author anticipates difficulty in meeting the assigned deadline, he or she must contact the editor immediately. Please note, however, that the planned publication date of the journal will not be delayed under any circumstances.
The Complete ManuscriptWhen sending the complete manuscript to the JOM editorial office, the package should include the following:
- The manuscript. The length of the manuscript is determined by the type of editorial format to which the article conforms. As a general guideline, three double-spaced, typewritten pages (about 1,200 words) equal one journal page. Aside from strictly adhering to length restrictions, be sure that the manuscript includes the following:
| EDITORIAL FORMATS |
| JOM offers its contributors a variety of formats for articles that conform to the journal's technical emphasis topics. Not all formats are published in all issues. Each format has a length restriction which should be carefully employed by the author when developing the manuscript. Authors are strongly encouraged to write with brevity and contribute papers that reflect the page minimums for the article format rather than the maximum. On rare occasions, extremely lengthy articles will be considered for serialization. The editorial formats include the formats listed below (the editor is always open, however, to suggestions for other formats as well).
Overview: 4-8 printed pages (3,200?,400 words). A well-referenced and well-illustrated introduction to the issues affecting and recent developments occurring in a topical technology. The purpose is to thoroughly introduce the general reader to the specifics of the field.
Research Summary: 3-5 printed pages (2,400?,000 words). These papers outline recent, technically in-depth investigations in materials science and technology.
Applied Technology: 2-4 printed pages (1,600?,200 words). These articles communicate information about advancements in commercial products or processes and are typically submitted by industrial sources.
Design: 2-4 printed pages (1,600?,200 words). These articles emphasize the application of the design process in the development of a material system, process, or product.
Testing and Analysis: 2-4 printed pages (1,600?,200 words). These articles emphasize the application of analytical techniques in the study of the properties and/or performance of a material.
Industrial Insight: 2-5 printed pages (1,600?,200 words). An experience-driven description of the economic, managerial, environmental, engineering, scientific, governmental, international, competitive, etc., factors that influence the development, introduction, and application of technology on an industrial scale.
Nontechnical Feature: 2-4 printed pages (1,600?,200 words). These articles examine pertinent issues in education, professional affairs, government policy, economics, and other areas important to materials scientists and engineers.
Conference Reviews: 1-4 printed pages (800?,200 words). A synopsis of a recent (no more than one year from the month of publication) symposium or conference. Key, not all, presentations are briefly summarized and attributed.
Opinion: 1-2 printed pages (800?,600 words). Qualified commentary by a recognized expert on a topical or controversial issue. A thesis and arguments for or against a particular premise must be presented with even-handedness and without innuendo.
Archaeotechnology: 2-4 printed pages (1,600?,200 words). These articles explore materials usage and development throughout history. They must contain new research results as well as detail on the cultural and historic context being examined.
JOM-e: length unlimited. These papers appear quarterly on JOM's World Wide Web site and can incorporate color and multimedia enhancements (for example, video clips, animation, audio, and sample software). |
- Title. 5-10 words
- Byline List all authors, with the primary author being first.
- Summary. Describe the scope of the paper in 3-4 sentences.
- Introduction. Provide background and set parameters for the discussion to follow in 2-3 paragraphs.
- Headings. The headings should be descriptive and more specific to the textural content that follows than simply "Procedure," "Results," "Discussion," etc.
- Conclusion. States deductions flowing from the paper or comments of future needs. Do not simply repeat facts and prior discussion. If this occurs, the section will be deleted during editing.
- References. Credit the work of others when it is cited or employed. References should be numbered consecutively as they appear in the article. In preparing the references, use the footnote format described in any commonly available handbook on manuscript preparation. Alternatively, review our list of commonly used reference formats in the journal. If you are unsure of how to prepare a particular reference, err on the side of providing too much information rather than too little.
- Tables. Include only as essential. Number them with Roman numerals.
- Original Artwork. While illustration can enhance the appearance of an article, available space is restricted to essential figures. Generally, one illustration per manuscript page is a good guideline. Number the figures using Arabic numerals. Include the primary author's name on the back of each figure. Important detail on artwork appears in the following section.
- Figure Captions. In terms of content, figure captions should be free-standing and contain details particular to the figure. More general observations and discussion based on the depicted information should be relegated to the body of the text. Add the figure captions to the end of the article, even if the captions are already typed below the actual figure.
- Metric Units. Do not use U.S. customary units.
- A photocopy of the complete manuscript.
- A disk containing the complete manuscript. Ideally, the manuscript should be prepared in Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, or some other widely used word-processing program for Macs and/or Windows-based systems. If you plan to send digitized figures as well, send them as EPS files. Do not embed them in the word-processing document. With prior approval from the editor, authors may provide all electronic files via FTP rather than disk submission. If you do not have access to a computer, the manuscript must be typed, double spaced, on clean bond paper.
- A signed copyright form. This form can be downloaded in portable document format (PDF) for viewing and print out using Adobe Acrobat.
- Completed author biography forms for each author. Requested data include author's name, title, employer, educational background, and TMS affiliation.
- A cover letter that includes all necessary contact information for the primary author. To avoid confusion, the editor will work with only the designated contact author.
Fair Use
A common question in manuscript preparation involves what, if anything, can be reused from other publications. For a nonprofit technical journal such as JOM, the answer is generally covered by the concept of Fair Use. In U.S. copyright law, the Fair Use statute states that use for purposes of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research is fair use. As to works not in these categories, the statute states that the factors to be considered include the purpose and character of the use, including whether it is of a commercial nature or for nonprofit educational purposes; the nature of the copyrighted work; the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and the effect of the use upon a potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. Of course, any material that is not your original work must be cited via the use of appropriate references. (For considerably more detail on Fair Use, view the August 1997 JOM article on the subject, "Understanding Copyrights: Ownership, Infringement, and Fair Use.")
If photographs are to be printed, provide high-quality glossy prints (size is not a critical consideration, although larger prints are preferred). Do not assemble collages or composite images to achieve a particular layout provide a sketch of the desired effect and then leave it to the journal's staff to produce the appropriate design. For line art, be sure to provide no worse than laser printer originals. Be sure that the type that appears in the figures is large as the figures will be reduced to fit the journal's format. The type should still be readable if the figure is ultimately reduced to a maximum width of slightly more than 5 cm. Important: Do not provide clearly inferior photos or photocopies in lieu of original photographs. They will not be printed.
Digitized artwork is encouraged, but original glossy photographs and laser printer-quality line art must also be provided. When sending digitized artwork, EPS files are preferred. Resolution for these figures should be 300 dpi for photographs and 600 dpi for drawings.
Color is rarely used in the journal, but exceptions may be made for exceptional color photographs. Photographs suitable for use on the front cover of the journal are always welcome. Likewise, interesting figures with free-standing captions are welcomed to balance the layout or highlight the article's appearance when space permits.
Micrographs require scale markers for reference after reduction. Position the scale marker outside of the image area.
Artwork can be returned upon request.
If your paper is being submitted for inclusion as part of JOM-e, the file does not have to be prepared in HTML (hypertext markup language). The same guidelines as apply to a conventional manuscript apply to the electronic version as well. However, the submission should also include all necessary electronic files and/or supplemental information that will be used to achieve web presentation (e.g., animation, downloadable software, video, suggested hyperlinks, etc.).
Each submission is read by the editorial staff and one or more reviewers. If they find a manuscript awkwardly organized, unclear, or difficult to follow, there is a high probability that the average reader will feel the same way. Therefore, manuscripts are edited for clarity as well as to conform to the size and style requirements of the journal. Editorial changes are always intended to improve the presentation. Content, headings, figure captions, formality of the language, and the general structure are all styled to attract reader attention and enable readers to procede at a comfortably brisk pace. In this process, every attempt is made to preserve the technical integrity of the original work. Sometimes, however, lengthy or poorly written papers can be incorrectly altered or abridged. Therefore, judicious self-editing, with cognizance of the audience characteristics, can streamline a paper and avoid excessive textural modification by the journal's editors.
Unlike many journals, JOM does not require authors to pay page charges. Publication expense is borne by advertising, subscription revenue, and a subsidy from TMS member dues. Consequently, length restrictions and stylistic standards are strictly enforced.
The contact author is given an opportunity to approve the edited version of the paper. Except for the correction of typos and technical errors, editorial and style revisions will not be accepted. Typically, proofs will be sent to the contact author 5-7 weeks prior to the month of publication. Depending on the author's preference, proofs will be sent via fax, as a PDF file attachment in an e-mail message, or can be downloaded from the JOM web site in portable document format using Adobe Acrobat. Proofs are typically provided in page-layout format. Authors should carefully study the galleys and telephone or fax in their corrections within two business days of receipt of the proofs.
For a fee, articles are reprinted as saddle-stitched booklets, with the front cover showing the title of the article, the authors' names and affiliations, and a credit line acknowledging the article's publication in JOM. Corporate or organizational artwork can be included. Reprints are available after publication, and a letter describing the procedure will be sent to the contact author approximately one month after the issue is released. If you have a question on the reprint process, contact Mark Cirelli.
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